Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions xi
5. Chronology: George Grant’s Life xiii
6. Introduction to Volume 3: 1960–1969 xvii
7. Two Letters to Murray Ross, President of York University 1
8. Convocation Address Given at St John’s College, Winnipeg 9
9. An Ethic of Community 20
10. Memorandum on Encyclopaedia Britannica 49
11. The Year’s Developments in the Arts and Sciences: Philosophy and Religion 66
12. Review of Church and State in Canada West: Three Studies in the Relation of Denominationalism and Nationalism, 1841–1867, by John S. Moir 109
13. Exchange with Keith MacDonald, and Two Talks Given to Scientists 111
14. Sermon for a Student Service, McMaster Divinity School 134
15. Television Script: ‘Augustine’ 140
16. Television Script: ‘Kant’ 151
17. Conceptions of Health 163
18. Carl Gustav Jung 181
19. Review of Thought: Papers Given before the Learned Societies of Canada, 1960 193
20. Letter to Le Devoir 196
21. The New Europe 198
22. On Peter Fechter 202
23. Review of Christianity and Revolution: The Lesson of Cuba, by Leslie Dewart 204
24. Crime and Corruption 209
25. American-Soviet Disarmament 212
26. Unpublished Review of Plato on Man and Society, by I.M. Crombie 215
27. Review of Fountain Come Forth: The Anglican Church and the Valley Town of Dundas, prepared by R.B. Gilman 221
28. Memorandum of the Anglican Bishops Concerning the Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s Brief on Education 224
29. Value and Technology 227
30. Review of The Four Faces of Peace, by Lester B. Pearson 245
31. Review of The Predicament of Democratic Man, by Edmond Cahn 248
32. Man-Made Man 255
33. Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism 271
34. Introduction to the Carleton Library Edition (1970) of Lament for a Nation 368
35. Letter to Rodney Crook 379
36. Notes on the Constitutional Question: A Memorandum Written at the Request of the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker 384
37. Protest and Technology 393
38. Letter to the Globe and Mail: ‘Freedom Fighter’ 406
39. Individuality in Mass Society 407
40. Review of The Technological Society, by Jacques Ellul 413
41. ‘How Deception Lurks in the Secular City’: Review of The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective, by Harvey Cox 419
42. The Value of Protest 426
43. Two Televised Conversations between George Grant and Gad Horowitz 431
44. The Great Society 455
45. The Conservatives Must Put Canada First 463
46. From Roosevelt to LBJ 466
47. Qui Tollit: Reflections on the Eucharist 470
48. Technology and Empire: Perspectives on North America 473
49. ‘Technology and Man’: An Interview of George Grant by Gad Horowitz 595
50. ‘The Practice of Politics’ and ‘Thought about Politics’: The George C. Nowlan Lectures 603
51. George Grant and the Department of Religion, McMaster University 633
52. Course Lectures at McMaster in the 1960s: A Selection 668
53. Appendix 1 Radio and Television Broadcasts by George Grant Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 763
54. Appendix 2 Editorial and Textual Principles and Methods Applied in Volume 3 771
55. Index 775